One of the greatest pleasures of life is biting into a warm chocolate chip cookie straight from the oven. Now imagine it's Chocolate Chip Bread Pudding or Chocolate Chip Angel Cake with Chocolate Marshmallow Frosting. The Essential Chocolate Chip Cookbook offers 45 recipes that cover all the dessert basescookies, cakes, candies, brownies, tarts, frozen treats, and more. Chocolate chips saturate these recipes inside and out, so there's also a guide to the differences between these tiny indulgences. Using milk, semisweet, bittersweet, and white chocolate, Klivans encouragesreaders to discover their favorite chocolate chip recipes by, of course, tasting them all!
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"Elinor Klivans is one of my favorite food writers. I love her recipes and I love her voice, which is that of a reliable, witty friend who lures you in with chocolate. I can never resist her." Nigella Lawson, Food Network host and author of Nigella Bites and Nigella Express
"This exceptional recipe [called Kitchen Sink Chocolate Chip Cookies], from a new book called The Essential Chocolate Chip Cookbook by Elinor Klivans, delivers the goods." Fort Worth Star Telegram, Feb 2008
"Need inspiration for that bag of chocolate chips in the cupboard? The Essential Chocolate Chip Cookbook, by Elinor Klivans, has dozens of temping ideas, from (no surprise) cookies to (surprise!) Swiss fitness bark." Chicago Tribune, March 2008 and reprinted in the Akron Beacon Journal in April 2008
"Mounds of morsels make these studded goodies truly magical." —Quick and Simple Magazine, March 4, 2008
"This exceptional recipe [Kitchen Sink Chocolate Chip Cookies] delivers the goods." —Fort Worth Star-Telegram, February 28, 2008
About the Author
Elinor Klivans is a cookbook author from Camden, Maine. Her books include Big Fat Cookies and Cupcakes!.
Kirsten Strecker is a New York-based photographer.
Kirsten Strecker is a New York-based photographer.
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Elinor Klivans is a notable cookbook author and food writer who has published articles for Bon Appetit, Fine Cooking, Cooking Pleasures, and the Washington Post, among others. A former pastry chef, she is a member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals and lives in Camden, Maine.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
By rnbaker
Format:Paperback
This is another great book from elinor klivans. All of her recipes have clear instructions and give excellent results. I have made the cookie dough cheesecake and hot brownie sundae - both easy and very delicious!!! One drawback is that the print of the ingredients list is very light and small - somewhat difficult to read and requires double checking.
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Elinor Klivans's The Essential Chocolate Chip Cookbook is absolutely lovely, including a decent number of color photographs, a clean layout, and easy-to-read recipes. The pages are thick and somewhat glossy, comparatively easy to keep clean. You'll find everything in here from cookies to bar cookies, muffins to pies, tarts and puddings to cakes, and of course, ice cream desserts. The table of contents names each and every recipe, while the index allows you to look up recipes by major ingredient. If you want to find that lovely banana cream pie with graham cracker crunch, you can look under 'bananas' in the index or the 'pies' chapter in the table of contents.
The first recipe we made was a cinnamon and chips chiffon cake. Unfortunately, the mini-chips sank straight through the batter during baking, stuck to the pan, and then largely stayed behind when the cake was removed, leaving the cake with holes and a thick layer of remaining chocolate chips at the top. We made banana-oatmeal chocolate chip cookies; every person who tried them agreed they would have been better with about half the chips in them.
The real kicker was the cookie dough cheesecake bars, however. In the photo, a full layer of cheesecake filling sits atop a graham-chocolate chip crust. Small blobs of crispy baked chocolate chip cookie dough obscure some of the filling, and lines of chocolate drizzle criss-cross the entire thing. In reality, the crust kept falling apart; the layer of cheesecake was minimal and difficult to taste amongst everything else; the 'cookie dough' was far too abundant and didn't come together as a dough; and if we'd actually included the drizzled chocolate, the result would have tasted overwhelmingly of chocolate. Our guess is that there should have been about twice as much cheesecake filling; the crust perhaps needed a bit more butter; and the cookie dough needed more liquid (a little milk? an egg?) and should have been halved.
The flavors are good, if unbalanced (the chocolate overwhelmed the other flavors in the recipes). The book is beautiful. Unfortunately, not a single recipe we tried came out great, and they tended to have noticeable 'issues.' As much as I love Chronicle cookbooks on the whole, this is not one of their best.
The first recipe we made was a cinnamon and chips chiffon cake. Unfortunately, the mini-chips sank straight through the batter during baking, stuck to the pan, and then largely stayed behind when the cake was removed, leaving the cake with holes and a thick layer of remaining chocolate chips at the top. We made banana-oatmeal chocolate chip cookies; every person who tried them agreed they would have been better with about half the chips in them.
The real kicker was the cookie dough cheesecake bars, however. In the photo, a full layer of cheesecake filling sits atop a graham-chocolate chip crust. Small blobs of crispy baked chocolate chip cookie dough obscure some of the filling, and lines of chocolate drizzle criss-cross the entire thing. In reality, the crust kept falling apart; the layer of cheesecake was minimal and difficult to taste amongst everything else; the 'cookie dough' was far too abundant and didn't come together as a dough; and if we'd actually included the drizzled chocolate, the result would have tasted overwhelmingly of chocolate. Our guess is that there should have been about twice as much cheesecake filling; the crust perhaps needed a bit more butter; and the cookie dough needed more liquid (a little milk? an egg?) and should have been halved.
The flavors are good, if unbalanced (the chocolate overwhelmed the other flavors in the recipes). The book is beautiful. Unfortunately, not a single recipe we tried came out great, and they tended to have noticeable 'issues.' As much as I love Chronicle cookbooks on the whole, this is not one of their best.
By rebecca
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
i bought this for my sister, for Christmas, but I couldn't wait that long to give it to her. And I am soo glad I didn't wait.
the cookbook is beautifully laid out, really lovely and original recipes. every photo is both mouthwatering and beautiful.
our first taste of the recipes was the chococlate chip angel food cake with chocolate marshmallow frosting. Heaven.
This is my first introduction to this author, and I am looking forward to building my sister's library with more of her work.
love it. recommend it.
the cookbook is beautifully laid out, really lovely and original recipes. every photo is both mouthwatering and beautiful.
our first taste of the recipes was the chococlate chip angel food cake with chocolate marshmallow frosting. Heaven.
This is my first introduction to this author, and I am looking forward to building my sister's library with more of her work.
love it. recommend it.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Cute gift!
I bought this as a gift for a chocolate lover to put in a basket with some baking chocolate. Everything looked so good in there I might buy this for myself! Read more
Published on March 22, 2010 by Jen Y.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great for serious chocolate chip lovers
I've made just a couple recipes so far and they have both turned out well (even the pie crusts made from scratch, which I have never done before!). Read more
Published on February 10, 2010 by Stephanie Pendergrass
5.0 out of 5 stars
A cookbook sure to be popular among chocolate-loving library patrons
Chocolate chips are the author's passion, and The Essential Chocolate Chip Cookbook comes packed with ideas from bread puddings to cookies, cakes to candies and puddings. Read more
Published on September 12, 2008 by Midwest Book Review
